An Apple TV+ drama, The Crowded Room follows Danny Sullivan, a young adult who’s arrested for a public shooting; later, an investigator must dig deep into his traumatic childhood to explain why he did what he did.
Danny Sullivan is arrested for open firing at the Rockefeller Center in 1979. Although no one dies, it’s still a serious crime and he’s eventually arrested. However, the cops interrogating him are frustrated to find that his behavior is most peculiar and confounding.
While the working theory between them is that his erratic behavior is him just acting in order to elude culpability and that he’s also a serial killer. However, when one of the stumbles upon Professor Rya, who takes an interest in his case, a series of sessions begins.
In these sessions, Rya investigates the past and psyche of Danny, who she eventually believes is suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder, and has more than one or two alternative identities inside him. Here are all the alters of Danny Sullivan that have been shown so far in the show:
Jack
Jack is one of the many alters that reside within Danny Sullivan, and he’s there, like all the other alters, to protect Danny. He’s a swashbuckling Brit who uses wit and word salads to sneak out of trouble, rather than meet it head-on like Yitzak.
He stands in stark contrast with Danny’s timid, vulnerable, and soft personality. He’s the definition of confidence and also the most diabolical of all the alters, perhaps. It’s made evident when he kills Yitzak after the latter opines that they must all leave Danny in control, hence perishing themselves forever.
This is not to say that Jack wishes harm upon Danny but that his dire measures are only a consequence of Danny’s damaged psyche, which would conjure up or do anything to maintain the alters and keep Danny protected from the outside world.
Jonny
Jonny is one of two school friends that Danny Sullivan thinks are separate from him; in reality, they are but two of the personalities that his mind conjured up. Jonny is the lightest of the bunch.
He’s a swindler type and a real jovial guy, and while he can slime his way through sticky situations, he also tends to create said situations many times. However, Jonny is not merely a class clown, he’s got some useful tricks up his sleeve other than the ones to show off at a party.
He’s got heart and real courage that he shows when Danny gets into trouble trying to secure a firearm from Angelo, who opts for sexually abusing him as a payout. Before the hideous act can transpire, Danny is saved by Jonny, who assaults Angelo and helps Danny escape.
Mike
Mike is the jock-type but without the usual stereotypical trappings of one. He’s a regular guy who’s athletic and got a talent for basketball.
There really hasn’t been that much of him stepping into the spotlight but he’s always there to help out Danny Sullivan.
Ariana
Ariana becomes a close friend of Danny soon after the first meeting, at least that’s how Danny explains it in the sessions with Rya. She’s also one of the alters that Danny has inside him, one who surfaces every now and then.
She is shown to be a tortured soul but also one who’s really strong and shares a past similar to Danny. She disappears after the Rockefeller Center shooting and only surfaces after Danny first confronts the truth of all these voices inside his head.
She’s the alter whose experiences are basically what Danny has experienced in the past, along with Marlin’s sexual abuse and she seems to tell him about it, while the other alters don’t.
Yitzak
Yitzak is a middle-aged Israeli man who arrives in Danny’s neighborhood and lives in the infamous ghost house. He is the one who saves Danny from his school bullies and also against Angelo who returns to take revenge.
The legwork, the handwork — any sort of work that requires these limbs to be thrown in order to retaliate or protect Danny, Yitzak is the one who steps up. He’s also the one who proposes that he and other alters give up and perish to finally give Danny a chance to stand on his own feet.
However, Jack kills him for thinking that, claiming that Danny needs them and can’t survive without their help.
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